Re: 3.7-rc6 soft lockup in kswapd0

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Wed Nov 28 2012 - 06:39:14 EST


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:25:14PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
> Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 01:53:17PM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
> >> Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Any chance you could test with this fix instead, in addition to Dave's
> >>> accounting fix? It's got bool and everything!
> >
> >> Okay. Mel, speak up if you object. I also rebased on top of 3.7-rc7,
> >> which already includes Dave's fix. Again, speak up if that's a bad idea.
> >
> > No objections all round.
>
> Well, it just made it to 24 hours,
> it did before. I'm going to wait a couple more days before declaring
> victory, but it looks good so far.
>
> 19:19:10 up 1 day, 0 min, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.20, 0.22
> 21:24:05 up 1 day, 2:05, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.19, 0.18

Superb. The relevant patches *should* be in flight for 3.7 assuming they
make it through the confusion of last-minute fixes.

Thanks

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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